{"id":140766,"date":"2018-03-14T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=140766"},"modified":"2018-03-14T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:44:20","slug":"vikings-mckinnon-to-sign-with-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=140766","title":{"rendered":"Vikings McKinnon to sign with 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140767\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mickinnon-2-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mickinnon-2-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mickinnon-2-241x175.png 241w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mickinnon-2.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Minneapolis \u00a0 \u00a0 A report in the St. Paul Pioneer Press says that a source indicates that running back Jerick McKinnnon, who spent the past four seasons with the Vikings, will sign a four-year, $30 million contract with the 49ers on Wednesday&#8217;s first day of free agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>ESPN first reported the deal.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon had said after last season he was looking to possibly leave Minnesota. Last Sunday, he tweeted a picture of a plane, a reference to his Jet nickname, and wrote &#8220;coming to a city near you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being taken in the third round of the 2014 draft, McKinnon rushed for 1,918 yards and caught 142 passes in his four Vikings seasons.<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon likely will start for the 49ers since they lost last year&#8217;s starter, Carlos Hyde, in free agency to Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings&#8217; starter at running back in 2018 is expected to be Dalvin Cook, who suffered a season-ending torn ACL in the fourth game last season. Now, they must decide what to do about a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Latavius Murray, who handled the bulk of the load when Cook went down, is under contract for $5.15 million for next season. However, the Vikings might ask him to take a pay cut and release him if he doesn&#8217;t. Murray&#8217;s contract would become guaranteed for the season on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullout\">The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a media partner with Forum News Service<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis \u00a0 \u00a0 A report in the St. Paul Pioneer Press says that a source indicates that running back Jerick McKinnnon, who spent the past four seasons with the Vikings, will sign a four-year, $30 million contract with the 49ers on Wednesday&#8217;s first day of free agency. ESPN first reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140769,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140766\/revisions\/140769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}